Alfedus profiles

Having been in the film business for almost twenty years, Marek Dobeš has come out both as a director and a movie producer with a full-length black comedy Choking Hazard which was internationally presented on Tribeca Film Festival and then successfully sold to US market.

Born in Prague, Marek Dobeš started as a film critic in 1992 for Cinema magazine. In 1998 he obtained his Master's degree in film criticism at the Charles University College of Social Science - majoring in press and media.

Later on, he worked with prestigious film magazines (Premiere, Kinorevue, Cinema) and the TV film magazine Kinobox. Apart from his work for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival executive team, he also participated on the preparation of the Prague film festival Febiofest.

He started his screenwriting career during his university studies. Due to his specialization in film reports and interviews, he soon established himself in the film business.

In 1998, he wrote his first feature-length screenplay and the same year shot his first short film (a post-apocalyptic comedy The First Czech) with the co-production support of Filmexport company.

Marek Dobeš has written a number of feature film screenplays for various productions such as JBJ Film (Kajínek), North American Pictures, Punk Film, Three Brothers Production, Space Film, etc.

As a producer, director or screenwriter, he´s collaborated with Czech Television (I Was a Teenage Intellectual, tv series A Place Above), Nova TV and Punk Film (GrandSon on a hike), Warner Bros. Czech Republic (I Was a Teenage Intellectual), Bontonfilm (Choking Hazard) and last but not least Alfedus ltd (Choking Hazard and plenty of music videos).

2007 Marek Dobeš joined Alfedus ltd as a partner and a creative director.

Born in Příbram. Since his schooldays, he´s been devoted to two crazes – business and rock music. He started his enterpreneurial activities selling drawing-boards in Tábor and has successfully developed his business in facility cleaning and maintenance services to one of the most sought companies in Prague. He started organizing concerts after he´d moved house to Želíč near Tábor. He´s collaborated with tens of rock bands like Katapult, Vodovod, Hudba Praha, etc. He´s also worked as a personal assistant of Karel Kryl.

As a manager, he´s chosen a progressive rock band SEVEN lead by Honza „Kirk“ Běhounek which he´s been devoted to since its instrumental pioneer starts. The band has been giving concerts in Moscow recently featuring special guests on the Czech music scene such as Viktor Smolski (Rage), Doro Pesch, Kamil Střihavka or Honza Toužimský.

Richard Harušťák was the first to bring singers like Doro Pesch and Blaze Biley into Czech Republic. He was one of the masterminds of Retro music club. He´s also a founder member of the Golden Tie (Zlatá kravata) business awards. He is co-owner of popular rock channel Fajnrock TV. His interest in Czech history, music and film joins him with Marek Dobeš. In the film business, Richard Harušťák established himself as a co-producer of Choking Hazard featuring Jaroslav Dušek or Jan Dolanský. Along with Marek Dobeš, he produced a number of short film. A historical film about the life of Jan Žižka of Trocnov has been their utmost project so far.

Born in Zlaté Moravce in the Slovakia Republic since 1986 has lived in Prague. Since his youth he attracted the music and the music industry. After graduating from secondary and higher vocational school transport in Prague devoted several years of production management and marketing with a focus on the Internet. In 2003 he began to actively playing the bass and gradually gaining and managerial experience. In 2005, he created the group zakázanÝovoce and his passion to become a songwriting and writing lyrics. After a successful engagement zakázanÝovoce band in summer 2010 in the Agency Alfedus Music gets half a chance to participate in the development of this music as a production agency.

He was born in Madrid, Spain, where he studied graphic design and publicity. He moved to England where he continued his studies in Multimedia Design and started working as a freelance graphic designer. At this time he discovered his vocation for film and video production. In the year 2008 he moved to the Czech Republic in order to study film editing at FAMU, where he currently studies third year of bachelor's degree. He has already written and directed several short films, has edited lots of student films and has worked in film productions for Czech Television, Vít Olmer, Prague TV, Youngfilm and Institute of French Film among others. Nowadays he enjoys working at Alfedus and writes the scripts for his future films.

Born in Prague, where he currently finishing studies at the secondary school with focus on electrical engineering, which is also his hobby. But from his fifteen years he became interested in photography, graphics and audiovisual production, which led him to the Alfedus, where he works mainly as a DOP and editor.

About us

The company has been running since 1998 and has focused on music and film through personalities of its founders, Richard Harušťák and Mgr. Marek Dobeš . Production
Advertisements, music videos of Rage, Blaze Bayley, Seven, Walda Gang Volnaya Staya, Doga, Matahari and others, film projects Kajínek, Choking Hazard, I Was a Teenage Intellectual, Grandson is a tramp.

Richard Harušťák and Mgr. Marek Dobeš featured their names by the projects I was a Teenage Intellectual (co-produced by Czech Television, the creative group of Cestmir Kopecky), by a horror comedy Choking Hazard or under the success of a Honza "Kirk" Běhunek´s band Seven. Together they´ve produced a number of music videos and have worked with various Czech and foreign artists and bands like Seven Arakain, a German singer Doro Pesch or a Russian girl band Volnaya Staya. Cooperation
We have worked and working with these experienced and high quality talents: Cameramen: Martin Preiss, Radim Dittrich, Jakub Bouška, Milan Chadima, Sebastian Milaszewski or holder of a Czech Lion Award Divis Marek. Directors: Milan Šteindler, Karel Smyczek, Karel Coma. Screenwriters: Štěpán Kopřiva, Lucie Lukačovičová or Michal Petruš. Actors: Jaroslav Dušek, Jan Dolanský, Filip Blažek, Pavel Trávníček, Jan Antonín Duchoslav, Vlastimil Harapes, Robert Jašków, Jan Hrušínský, Vladimír Brabec, Bořivoj Navrátil, David Matásek, Květa Fialová, Dáda Patrasová. Musicians: Doro Pesch, Honza "Kirk" Běhunek, Victor Smolski or Blaze Bayley.